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Ghana Enters ‘New Era’ With Plans for National Defence University
ADF STAFF
Ghanaian leaders hailed the importance of military education and training as classes have commenced at a new war college and plans are underway to establish a full university system.
President Nana Akufo-Addo laid out his…
New Report COUNTS Cost of Coups
ADF STAFF
As the number of coups grows across Africa, economists are tracking the cost in terms of slowed growth and
lost investment. They’re also looking at recent history to predict the economic impact on West Africa.
The United…
Ghana’s First Female General Remembered Through her Memoir, ‘Lady in Boots’
ADF Staff
It was a life filled with firsts. Maj. Gen. Constance Edjeani-Afenu of the Ghanaian Armed Forces (GAF) was a trailblazer as a military officer, peacekeeper and diplomat.
She died in 2022, but her memoir, “Lady in Boots,”…
Kenyan, Brazilian Forces Team up for Jungle Warfare Course
KENYA DEFENCE FORCES
Members of Kenya’s Quick Reaction Force (QRF) and the Brazilian Jungle Warfare Mobile Training Team completed a three-week jungle warfare training course in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). …
Nigeria Opens National Counterterrorism Center
ADF STAFF
Nigeria opened two new facilities that will be the nerve center of its fight against terrorism.
In a March 2023 ceremony near the end of his presidential term, then-President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated the new Office of…
Somalia Intercepts Hardware, Explosives Bound for al-Shabaab
Voice of America
Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency seized two illicit shipments of military hardware and explosive material that were bound for al-Shabaab.
At a news conference in Mogadishu, Somalia’s then- State…